Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

Space is going to be commonplace.

As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

The only reason Hubble works is because we have a space shuttle.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don’t know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.